- The final set of options you can configure for your Oracledatabase in the cloud includes backup properties of yourdatabase, as well as some advanced configuration options.Let's start by discussing database backups.As you probably know, it's super important to keepyour Oracle databases on a regular backup schedule.You know, just in case.When creating an Oracle database in the Oracle cloud,you can specify where you want your databasebackups to be stored.

You actually got three options to choose from.One, store the database backups both locally on the databaseserver itself and also on external Oracle cloud storage.It makes sense to have your database backups also storedoutside your actual database server so that if somethinghappens to your database server, the backups,you know, the files you will use to recover your databasefrom are still accessible.Oracle uses cloud storage containers to safely storeyour database backups outside of your database server.

Think of these as external storage volumes.Ones you can easily create and manage.When selecting both cloud storage and local storageas your backup destination, you even have the optionto create a new cloud storage containeras part of the database creation process.Another option you have is to choose cloud storage only.Choosing this option will not store the database backupsboth locally and in the cloud storage,but only in cloud storage.

This options can help you save local storage spaceon your database server but might also add another stepwhen it comes to recover your database as you will probablyhave to copy the database backup files from the cloudstorage container to your local database storagebefore you will restore your database.The last option is to select none.This configures your database without a backup destination.For the sake of our demo, let's choose this optionas it makes things simpler for us to focus on showingthe new features of Oracle 12c release II and notspending much time on Oracle database backup configuration.

Of course, and I guess this goes without saying,for production Oracle cloud databases, you shouldnever choose this option and properly configureyour Oracle database backups.Oracle will even display a warning message on the webpageif you select none as your backup destination.That is because your database will be configured withouta default destination to which backups will be stored.This is risky.After selecting your backup destination, you can chooseif you want to create a new database based on a backupof an existing database.

That is restore this database from an existingOracle database backup.This is great for creating new databases basedon existing databases.For our demo, we should choose no as we want to createa brand new Oracle database.Finally, scrolling down, let's expandthe advanced setting section.Here, under advanced settings, you can choose your databaselistener port, timezone, character set,national character set, choose if you want to enableOracle GoldenGate, which is a real-time data replicationtechnology for Oracle, and choose if you want to deploythe demo PDB as part of the database creation.

Let's keep the default options for now.Once everything is done and configured,we can scroll up and click on the next button.Here, we will be presented with a summary screen presentingall of the configuration options we have specified.By clicking on the create button, we will actually createour database so let's click on create.Note that this process may take a while.After we have clicked on create, we are brought backto the Oracle database cloud service consoleand scrolling down, we see that we have a newly configuredOracle database called DemoDB with the current statusof creating service because the database is still beingcrated but not ready and an Oracle version of 12 dottwo dot zero dot one.

This is Oracle 12c Release II.

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Oracle 12c Release 2 introduced new features for improved performance, high availability, development, and more. Also, Oracle 12c Release 2 was the first Oracle database that was launched as a cloud-first database powered by the Oracle Cloud platform. In this course, explore some of the most interesting new features, and learn what you need to know to create and connect to a database in the Oracle Cloud. David Yahalom shows how to register for an Oracle Cloud account, and create new databases using the user interfaces. He also provides hands-on demos of some of the most exciting new features available exclusively in Oracle 12c Release 2, including new features for pluggable databases (PDBs) and partition management.